Aravind Eye Hospital's Contribution to Deep Learning

I was reading the book, Genius Makers written by Cade Metz and I was surprised to come across across the involvement and contributions of Madurai Aravind Eye Hospital to the field of Deep Learning, around 2015, way before the onset of Large Language Models. The hospital's contributions were huge corpus of the retinal scan images used to identify a condition called diabetic retinopathy and by training the models with these dataset and then research, the models were able to identify the conditions with 90% accuracy. Here is an excerpt from the chapter of the book. The Aravind Eye Hospital sits at the southern tip of India, in the middle of a sprawling, crowded, ancient city called Madurai. Each day, more than two thousand people stream into this timeworn building, traveling from across India and sometimes other parts of the world. The hospital offers eyecare to anyone who walks through the front door, with or without an appointment, whether they can pay for care or not. On any given…